Show HN: Hike is a decentralized, cloneable message board utilizing GPG for auth
hike.qdb.us
hike.qdb.us
This is basically a tree of text files that you can add to via a submit form.
You can post anonymously, which works pretty much like any other forum that allows anonymous posts...
But if a message is signed with GPG, it generates a colorful avatar and an author page for you, and it's like you have a user account... that you control! No secrets on the server!
And you can clone the whole message board by just taking a zip of it (conveniently generated and linked at /clone.html) and putting it on your server!
Synchronizing between different message boards to come in the future...
• Publishing your submission may take eleven minutes or more.
This seems oddly specific.
• Messages containing an @ character are saved for the admin.
Just... what?
At the moment, it's refreshing every 10 minutes. I wrote eleven so that the line would be the same length as all the other lines in those instructions. I enjoy making websites a little quirky. I'll probably get rid of that line once the updates are instant.
> • Messages containing an @ character are saved for the admin.
This is due to people occasionally trying to submit their contact info. I don't want email addresses to be displayed publicly, so they are stashed into a separate folder.